Improvement in looms for weaving hair-cloth



J. PARADIS. Loom for-Weaving Hair-Cloth.

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NI'IED S'rarns JOSEPH runners, on BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD H.FAULKNER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING HAIR-CLOTH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,437, dated March30, 1875; application filed November 8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn PARADIS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Looms for WeavingHair-0loth, of which the following is a correct description:

My invention relates to a device for drawing one hair at a time out froma bunch, and conveying the same across between the sheds of warps anddropping it at the proper place in the shed.

I employ a selector made as a fork or jaw, with a tapering or V-shapedopening, the narrowest part of which is sufficient only to contain onehair, and a pointed hook is swung across this opening and enters betweenthe first and second hairs of the bunch of hair against which the forkis pressed, and said hook clamps the first hair within the jaw, so thatwhen the selector is drawn across the loom between the sheds of warpsthe hair is drawn from the bunch and can be dropped in the shed at theproper place by moving the hook away from the V and releasing the end ofthe hair.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a sectional plan, and Fig. 2 is anelevation, of my improved selector, the same being shown in enlargedsize.

The selector is made with the jaw a, which is of a V sh ape, convergingto a narrow groove, and this groove is of a size to admit of but onehair lying therein, no matter how many hairs there may be in the jaw a.The hook b is pivoted at, c, and passes transversely of the jaws andthrough an opening therein, and the point of said hook is madesufficiently sharp to pass between two hairs without injuring them. Theselector is at the end of a shuttle or of a picking-rod, which is movedacross the loom between the sheds of warps by means of a picking-stickor other device in any ordinary manner, and the bunch of hair is to besustained at right angles to the jaw of the picking-rod or shuttle, andwith one end of the bunch placed so that the jaw a can be pressed uponsuch bunch so that the hair passes into said jaw. As the jaw pressesupon the bunch of hair a cam or other device is employed to act upon thetail of the hook I) and move the point of the hook between the hair thatis in the groove at the inner end of the jaw a and the hair or hairsnext above it, and said first hair is clamped between the inner side ofthe hook I) and the jaw a, and as the selector and pickin g-rod movebackward the hair is drawn from the bunch, and conveyed in between thewarps and deposited in the shed at the proper place by a cam acting uponsaid hook to move the point thereof aside from the V opening and releasethe end of the hair.

I claim as my invention- The selector formed of a jaw with a hookvibrated laterally to pass between the first hair and the next above itin said jaw, and acting to clamp said hair, substantially as set forth.

Signed. by me this 6th day of November, A.

JOSEPH PARADIS. Witnesses:

. HAROLD SERRELL, GEO. T. PINCKNEY.

